History of life on earth
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- Q1the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rockfossil30s
- Q2any method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than other events or objectsrelative dating30s
- Q3any method of measuring the age of an object or event in yearsabsolute dating30s
- Q4the standard method used to divide the Earth's long natural history into manageable partsgeologic time scale30s
- Q5describes a species that has died out completelyextinct30s
- Q6the theory that explains how large pieces of the Earth's outermost layer, called tectonic plates, move and change shapeplate tectonics30s
- Q7the period in the geologic time scale from the formation of the Earth to the beginning of the Paleozoic era, from about 4.6 billion to 542 million years agoPrecambrian time30s
- Q8the geologic era that followed Precambrian time and that lasted from 542 million to 251 million years agoPaleozoic era30s
- Q9the geologic era that lasted from 251 million to 65.5 million years ago; also called the Age of ReptilesMesozoic era30s
- Q10the most recent geologic era, beginning 65 million years ago; also called the Age of MammalsCenozoic era30s
- Q11the type of mammal characterized by opposable thumbs and binocular visionprimate30s
- Q12a type of primate characterized by bipedalism, relatively long lower limbs, and lack of tailhominid30s
- Q13the species of hominids that includes modern humans and their closest ancestors and that first appeared about 100,000 to 160,000 years agoHomo sapiens30s